Jon Simpson’s Weblog

So Matt’s been blogging recently about the options faced by people maintaining several reasonably sized web sites. I figure I’ll add my 2 cents on the issue, if only to follow up on my earlier post about the joys of dedicated server-dom.

For a while now I’ve been working in the internet field, with a few websites that make a tidy sum of money each month. For a long time they’ve all been hosted on a shared account I’d had for some time, which had previously been used for small personal projects and had mostly been co-opted [...]

Further to my last post about spaced paths and SCP, I ran into SCP not particularly liking the laggy and low-bandwidth nature of the connection I was using it over. This caused some problems with it stalling in the middle of transferring files. As SCP seems to overwrite files it has already started retrieving, and [...]

Ok, so whilst trying to copy a directory structure from one of my Windows boxes at home, I had an issue getting scp to like the pathnames & filenames (they contained spaces). I’ve looked up the answer to this before as its affected me previously, but this time it took 10-15 minutes of googling. So [...]